A video, slide deck, and accompanying code repository for how to deploy Jenkins onto AWS in an immutable way. Worth taking a look at this if you’re dealing with similar problems.

The inaugural REdeploy conference (exploring the intersections of resilient technology, organizations, and people) is coming to San Francisco this August. Last Week in AWS is proud to be a media sponsor. More to come on that in coming weeks...

Friend of the newsletter Datadog is having their Dash conference in New York on July 11-12. If it works for your schedule, I strongly suggest attending; AWS is a platinum sponsor, and longtime readers know how finicky they are about putting their logo on any conference that doesn't have the word "Amazon" in the title somewhere. Use the code "DASHLAST" to get 20% off of registration.

If you’re tired of playing Instance Alphabet Soup, this EC2 Compute Instance Family Lineage is incredibly handy at sorting out which each family offers, as well as from where it descends.

This article goes into non-trivial depth about CloudFront settings that can dramatically reduce the bill. I’m doing most of them, but picked up a trick or two– just in time for me to start putting additional load through CloudFront.

Choice Cuts From the AWS Blog

Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes Now Generally Available - Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past week, you’ve heard that EKS has been released. I’ll be honest: I’m not sure what the value here is of this product. Somewhat more concerning, when I attempted to understand the value I got three very different explanations from three very well regarded people within the Kubernetes ecosystem. Time will tell what this turns into– another Aurora, or the next SimpleDB.

Amazon WorkDocs introduces Open with Office Online - I feel like someone’s having fun at my expense– I’m sorry, doesn’t this announcement tout a new feature enhancement to WorkDocs that distills down to “Good news, you don’t have to use WorkDocs anymore?” I mean, they’re not wrong, but that’s not really the point…

Tools

AWS Labs’s cfn-python-lint serves as a handy CloudFormation Linter if you don’t have something else like Troposphere doing the job for you.

A handy way of injecting AWS SSM Parameters as environment variables. I tend to take a slightly different approach to this myself, but there are a lot of use cases out there.

Sparta is a framework to convert a Go application into a Lambda / API Gateway microservices driven app.

No sooner is EKS released, but third-party CLIs have hit GitHub for it. eksctl is one of them; I think it’s too soon to say whether there’s a need here.

…and that’s what happened Last Week in AWS.

I’m Corey Quinn. I help people significantly reduce and understand their AWS bills and speak broadly on the conference circuit. I advise companies doing interesting things in the cloud space, such as ReactiveOps.

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